Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-10-06
Rnck from Heaven

Back from Heaven
There is one young lady, Miss Deli
Street OF Giles county, says the Thu
Fayetteyile (renn.) Observer, who claim
| to have spread her white wings an,
sailed over the sea- to the celestial cit,
last March. The fact has not until th,
present time been in print, and woult
/ probably never have been published haC
she remained in that lethargio country
/ There have been at different times per
/ sons who have made similar clai@s but
/ the pu5lie instead of listening 10 then
1 with credulity, looked upon the claim
ants rather with commicseration, and re.
4 garded the feryid accounts Of what they
saw as the imaginings Of a diseased MIND
or petchance the product of disordereC
/ liver.
/ Miss Street is what Is known as
"country girl, and has not enjoyed The
educational facilities of large cities, but
she Is lively ana vivacious, and in pOlnt
of intelligence is the equal of those raised
under the same circumstances; but 10 Is
not reasonable to think person of such
| limited advantages Icould unassisted de
scribe anything in as glowing languag,
as she does.
Her description of the heavenly Jeru
salem, which is vivid, is reduced to writ
ing, and is offered in girlhood's diGi.
dence and youthful innocence. 1t is
clicked IA the most elegant and chaste
language, and describes country more
glorious than any upon which the feet o.
fancy have ever trod, and bears the i'm.
press OF superior mind. There are
condolences connected with this case
that challenge attention and show there
was power greater than the finite in.
volved
About the 1st OF February OF the cur.
rent year Miss Street informed her par
ents that on the 9th of March following
at o'clock in the afternoon, she would
bs taken violently i'll; that she would
grow worse until the following day al
O'Clock p. m, a. which time she would
die and remain in state OF death foi
twenty-five minutes, aud that during the
period of sus pended animation she would
visit that "house not made with hands
eternal in the heavens Sho asked hei
father not to send for doctors, 40 human
fundamentally could not prevent bel
journey to paradise and also told him
not TO be alarmed; declaring, with i'm
plicit confidence, that after enduring this
sting of death for twenty fve minutes
her mortal and immortal natures would
| reunite and she would again become {
living soul.
OF course, the parents we're uneasy
about the idol OF their 6reside and begaI
to think that her reason was abdicatinl
its throne. On the arrival of the day OF
which she announced she would be taken
! i'll they eyinced great solicitude, inquir
ing hourly as to her condition. She ans
swered cheerily, and continued TO ad
monish them not 90 be alarmed, The
! hands o. the clock toiled around, until I
was finally reached, and TO the girls par
ents they never seemed TO move so rapid
/ ly. While the time piece was upon th'
| stroke of the hour, the young LADY wa
Frustrated with sickness and yiolen
pains raoked her body, Despite her en-
treaties her father sent for skilled physi
clans, who yainiy administered their pc
tent remedies; and at o'clock on tn
/ 2Sth they pronounced life extinct. TIL
sickness and death occurred as she hat
! predicted and in time so did the resusci
! tation. The father remembered the dec
! laration that she would return TO life
and looked at the clock, and 10! the pen
| dulum had ceased to vibrate, and the ok
| time piece, that had for years faithful.
toiled off the hours had stopped while up
! on the stroke of 9! When the girl re
| turned to consciousness the clock starte'
| of its own accord, finished striking th'
| hour, and has run since without interrup
ton. By reference to the watch of on
of the doctors it was found that she ha
been insensible, shall We say dead, TO
% minutes.
! After the return of animation he
tongue was paralyzed and she indicate
by signs that writing paper was wanted
which was provided, and she wrote letter
which she gays Eere dictated by Chris
and the description previously referee
TO. The whole covers nineteen pages o
forlscap paper. She says she IS CON
m.ssioned to read her manuscript whore
ever she goes.
While in the home of the blest she wa
asked by woman to write, after return
ing to earth, TO her great-granddaughte
Mrs. Annie b. Shelton, of Kinterbist
Sumter County, Ala, and tell her ho'
anxiouely her great-granddame aWalte
her coming.
Our informant is not positive as t.
the correctness of these names, but b
thinks that OF the old lady was Mrs. Ami
Belmont who said she had been dead .
years. BY writing to the address tn
girl gave it was learned that woman o
that name had died in that place in l77'
and that she had great-grsuedaughte
living there.
Miss Street says she will be old in 1873
of the date of her death.
Il was in Sabine county, Tex, fe
years before the late war. Judge r.
was holding court on the second hoor G
n building. On the first floor gamblin
bank was il full blast and the player